Archives for January 2017

A tweet jolted me today. Doublespeak hit the news a few days ago, sending George Orwell’s final masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, back into a bestseller list. It was the anniversary of Orwell’s death this weekend, too.

There was another one of those “we’re living in echo chambers” papers recently. It’s from the same data on science and conspiracy theory social media that triggered a wave of “Facebook is making us dumber” news stories early

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